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    The Open Heart

    Catherine Wells was both the wife of the famous H.G. Wells and the author of short stories, poems and an unfinished novella, The Open Heart, a haunting study of a…

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    The Sleeper Awakes

    H. G. Wells

    A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep- like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however…

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    Science Fiction: Its criticism and teaching

    Patrick Parrinder

    First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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    Shadows of Future: H. G. Wells, Science Fiction, and Prophecy

    Patrick Parrinder

    H.G. Wells - inventor of the concept of the time machine - the shape of things to come - described his work as one of critical anticipation. This book unravels…

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    Science Fiction: Its criticism and teaching

    Patrick Parrinder

    First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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    Science Fiction: A critical guide

    Patrick Parrinder

    What do we mean by Science Fiction? What does it do, and why do so many people read it? What are its characteristic values, attitudes and procedures? Is it a…

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    Shadows of the Future: H G Wells, Science, Fiction and Prophecy

    Patrick Parrinder

    Wells, the inventor of the concept of the time machine and the phrase ‘the Shape of Things to Come’ described his life’s work as one of ‘critical anticipation’. Shadows of…

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    H.G. Wells

    This volume covers novelist H.G. Wells, whose writings include The Time Machine , The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man . The volume covers the period 1895-1940 and…

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    Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching

    Patrick Parrinder

    This book, first published in 1980, analyses science fiction as a mode of literature, examines the definition of the genre, its function as social criticism and as an embodiment and…

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    Science Fiction: Its Criticism and Teaching

    Patrick Parrinder

    This book, first published in 1980, analyses science fiction as a mode of literature, examines the definition of the genre, its function as social criticism and as an embodiment and…

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    Science Fiction: A Critical Guide

    This book, first published in 1979, presents a portrait of science fiction as a distinct form of serious and creative literature. The essays establish the common properties of science fiction…

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    Science Fiction: A Critical Guide

    This book, first published in 1979, presents a portrait of science fiction as a distinct form of serious and creative literature. The essays establish the common properties of science fiction…

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    H.G. Wells

    Writings include The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and The Invisible Man. Volume covers the period 1895-1940. Extras: Appendices list additional critical articles and a full chronology of…

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    Science Fiction: A critical guide

    Patrick Parrinder

    What do we mean by Science Fiction? What does it do, and why do so many people read it? What are its characteristic values, attitudes and procedures? Is it a…

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    Utopian Literature and Science: From the Scientific Revolution to Brave New World and Beyond

    Patrick Parrinder

    Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Ranging from Galileo’s observations with the telescope to current ideas of…

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    Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia

    A definite look at the state of science fiction studies today that surveys the field from Hugo Gernsbach to the present.

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    James Joyce

    Patrick Parrinder

    This book is an original and well-informed survey of the whole of Joyce’s work. It offers close readings of his early writings such as Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist…

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    H.G. Wells Short Stories

    H.G. Wells, one of the founding fathers of science fiction created a rich universe of short stories, many of which are collected here in this special deluxe edition. The Star…

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    Learning from Other Worlds: Estrangement, Cognition, and the Politics of Science Fiction and Utopia

    A definite look at the state of science fiction studies today that surveys the field from Hugo Gernsbach to the present.

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    The Time Machine

    H. G. Wells

    When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace.

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    The Island of Doctor Moreau

    H. G. Wells

    Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo a menagerie of savage animals.

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    The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 4: The Reinvention of the British and Irish Novel 1880-1940

    Volume 4 of The Oxford History of the Novel in English traces the dramatic changes in British and Irish fiction from the long novels of the 1880s to the ‘paperback…

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    Authors and Authority: English and American Criticism 1750-1990

    Adrian Parr

    One of the great paradoxes of modern times is that the more scientists understand the natural world, the more we discover that our everyday beliefs about it are wrong. Neil…

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    Nation and Novel: The English Novel from its Origins to the Present Day

    Patrick Parrinder (School of English and American Literature, University of Reading)

    Patrick Parrinder’s new history of the English novel traces the form’s distinctive and often subversive reflection of national identity across the centuries. From the early stories of rogues and criminals…

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    The Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe

    Leading international scholars from across Europe explore the reception of Wells across the continent, including his cinematic afterlives. Includes a historical timeline and comprehensive bibliography.

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    The Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe

    This book offers pioneering insights into Wells’s contribution to 20th century European literature and to modern political ideas, including the idea of European union.

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    The Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 1

    H G Wells,David Smith,Patrick Parrinder

    This collection of H.G. Wells’s correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells’s daughter by Amber Reeves

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    The Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 2

    H G Wells,David Smith,Patrick Parrinder

    This collection of H.G. Wells’s correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells’s daughter by Amber Reeves

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    The Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 3

    H G Wells,David Smith,Patrick Parrinder

    This collection of H.G. Wells’s correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells’s daughter by Amber Reeves

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    The Correspondence of H G Wells Vol 4

    H G Wells,David Smith,Patrick Parrinder

    This collection of H.G. Wells’s correspondence draws on over 50 archives and libraries worldwide, including the papers of Wells’s daughter by Amber Reeves

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    Rendezvous with Arthur C. Clarke

    Rendezvous with Arthur C. Clarke explores the author's representations of gender and sexuality, his location within post-war science fiction, his engagement with religion and ecology, his influence on such writers…

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    The First Men in the Moon

    H. G. Wells,Patrick Parrinder

    When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent- minded scientist on the brink of…

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    The Country of the Blind and other Selected Stories

    H. G. Wells

    A consummate storyteller, the author made fantastic creatures and machines entirely believable; and, by placing ordinary men and women in extraordinary situations, he explored, with humor, what it means to…

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    Adventures in Space (Short stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction writers)

    Patrick Parrinder,Yao Haijun,Leah Cypess,Ronald Ferguson,Russell James

    A momentous project, with fifteen English and Chinese language science fiction writers. New, emerging and established authors from a mix of open submissions and curated selections create a stunning mediation…

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    H. G. Wells’s Perennial Time Machine

    Acclaimed as a work of genius when first published in 1895, The Time Machine represents a revolution in storytelling. This collection of essays offers a series of original, penetrating, and…

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    Alien Invasion Short Stories

    Visitors from other planets have long obsessed us. H.G. Wells’ War of Worlds spawned a huge wave of speculative fiction but the roots of such fears run deep in our…

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